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County News VOL 3 No 153 OBIiRIJN AND ELLINGTON WEDNESDAY JANUARY U 1863 100 PER ANN IM THE LQ3AIS COUNTY SEWS PUBLISHED AT OBKUMN OHIO BV V A SHAK JXIAND CO 8100 Per Vear in Advance BUSINESS DIRECTORY v a saaiK ian a ce Book an i Juij Pniitt rsaml Publishers Newsm BuifUiiig UtiLTiin Fur lortua c seeuilvurticmti toti toiinb puju ito ot notsfc Corner of Mniii bmJ Coll Siiiet Obiii Im LW i uii i iwrKioi liriiig by tUodav or week COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE fiiir1 Floor Ac w Ruiiiliijr Oberliu 0 See Hijs inn uiii Surj n hasi Culture Street iOflERTS BAILEY AiioriKT niiii otihsi llors l Law Office mvr Koveys l ro Obcrnti O II r KOUBI Ti O Kuky Jr Uaitkctt tiro tier ami Puusion Ageiit loCollt gi Plata Oburtui B PfiENTISS of the ltiie Kclt Pay Uiunly Pension Collecting andInsurnc lgoiti in J ilor ouUi ui riovc huitv viticriio O I MJOHNSON CO Dyitlors m ir iiouda li rutencsj Harttvrure CmKerinauiiiHc No 1 Me re limitsfcxctiiiiie vtiin utierhii uiuu ec Adv KINNEV KEAWIER Lotilurs in Dry GooW Groceries Crockery lurii ware ole Uuer iii Olio fcjeu Adv Ueakr u Koaiiy made CI Miing Foreign ami lfmiesiit ir Giini Cloth CailiUtreWlliliijiy Uoaa Kuiis utikee Aoiius 6c c AtO AivcrtiSeiiieiU itutloi in lif ks Suiianery Pioiures Picture Fitiio W il P ipor tVc Comer Main andGuile ireeU ci lin J M fl lCH ntkallr ami riiuiiuier unil Dealer iu iirv PitiuK Viuiiu ldo djreal variety omih miiuble Lt lu trade OOrtrliu Ouio Pi Ptitogra liist tliiid Slorycoru r of Main aud CoHigT M o be rut V i K L HENRY Dealer iu Drugs Aledicnea itc OberliuO AdvorlisentuuL HA dUNC Daiei in Drills Modiciue fcic OberUn 0 Siie AJ vwrtiir uieul jrrSiODALL Uantist Union Block Oberlin Ohio f nAN HENOrtY iijni jtr in Clocks WaCcies Jewelry Musical i isinjueuu silv iWaroSyectaeieKancjOioticaJ fuiicy ClitUa vVure rtio J Uiiio Uloefc Ofierfrti O aitverLieiueul J VW LINOcH Dealeriu Clocks VVaieties Jewelry Silver Wttfe wcUci aiid tuuey Gouas uoerlln WNl HOVEY Dealer in Gxoecn Flour Provisions Hard ware ilte Commercial iiloct Ouerliu J 0tAlUliM i Grocer Cooluiliniier laler in Provision Flour betUOieeic io 1 Jiuni Block Oorliu JOHN 8KICE Coinmisinn Merchant Tailor find Prctical Culler Wuh luauo CiuUiiiig always on nana WEED BECKWITH StvosTin Shee Iron and Hardware Maiu Street Ubemu Vtli AtOCii ManufaciucersvV Ujalors in LaJiesuid Gonts KMLjud nuocd A 1 Union bioik Ubjrlin WiVi dAUEY tlealor iii Baiitd allocs and iviibbura Custom VVoi k uxfic io iiriier nu Uui bt Oborlin O H WALL Dealer in Hoots and Hliocs ieeiat atteulion lo ciiaoni vwik 14 Collude flace Obrliu P K TOBIN Sadtia and Ujirneas Maker and Dealer in Iranrf3 Vaiiaea Carpel ila VVUip fee Souiii dam Mrel uuoriin mgu ol ine ui upfo Sce adverii4imejii J AH lliiMi j Harnesses Saddles Trunk Carp 1 Bags Rub ber Llwtuingiiiiiio iooeoicMiin 61 uburtiu J I AiUatflltiiic Meit Market brdli mid Sail Moais Fish tc Cash tor HiUo and Pul Uiu Mreet Ouerlm WM KNORH Mtul Market Prosit and halt Ueof and Pork die uarpf ntjr iiiocK Oberlin ISAAC PcNiIEcO Wytn4 M idj and KepAired andBiaekinithog to order cor d no iud Waior sts ObTiin HVCi A WllflBMCV Livery fe Oiihujus Keep rs Have c uist iitly on iimd tfood H raja and Carnages All orders lull wiln Uleiu will te pronptl allundd t Uifico u or norm ot ine iNtvOiHceu0wr liuoiiio C H Favh L A Whitskv Livrr find Boarding Stable AXol Horse and cr ia to lei Kat CidUise Si Ooeilm s jod r a MaW and dealer in Furniture otc South VI am treet JOorhn H EVANS BROTHER Cncral Umltrtakers and Cabinet Alakersaiid Dealers in Furiituro Uberlui WATEttMAN PEEK Mantitaetief uf Urs Saaii iiliuJa anJ 8crol vVoric mil uhlT O irhn S B tLli PlantiiqrHhd Stiinlu Mill Sawing doneloorUei Soaia vUiiim obrln J H DICKSOM Allorne and CouaaulUir al Iaw Ofllc in tb PSl Otll e Wilhnisiun O BLISS ANOJJHNSrON Attirn jvj uil ouaiullord Ht Law and S tllci tnr in lilt uiury Will lUnud pruMiplly lo all luinvrio eniril t I In llieir cure olltcc JHo 8 UWilli tiuick ELVRii Ohio A A dim O W Johnston Squandered Lives TIip Ssliermaii wades in the surges I he sailor sails over the Sta The soIiIut s es hravely tu buttle TIib woodniun lays SXij lo ills tree They are ench of the hreed of the heroeii The niinhomi alteiripered in strife Strung hamla Ihut go liylitly to Iabir r4 True hearts thai tjvko comfort iu life In each is the seed lo replenish The world vith the vitror it need he cetitre m honest nrTiCtions The impulse to geBeroua dtvds But the sharks drink the blood of the fisher The sailor is dropped in the sea The soloier lies colti ly hii camion Tha woodman is crashed by his Iree Ench prodigal life that is wasted in numy acaieveiuent unseen Bui lciijjlljeija khe day of ihe uoward And strengthens the crufiy and mean The blood of the noblest is lavished That Ihe selfih a profit may find flui God sees the lives that are squandered And we lo his wisdom arv blind Bayard Taylor Like Begets Like A plant or a tree never forgets itself Cheat it of its root and the steuiremains faithful The minutest twig put out to nurse upon the arm of a foreign mother feels the thrill of the great primal law in its filmiest fiber and braaihas in everyexpression of life its fidelity If you will walk with me in o the garderiIwill show you a mountainash in lull bloom but on the top of it you will see a strange little cluster of pear blossoms A twig from a Seckel peartree was two or three years ago engrafted there It had a hard time in uniting its being to that of the alien ash but it loved lite and so at length it coasented to join itself to the transplanted forest tree It was weak and alone but it kept its law Spring bathed the ash with its own peculiar bloom and autumn hung it with its clusters of scarlet berries and it was hidden from sight by the redundant foliage but it kgpt its law The roots of themountainash blindly reaching in the ground afid imbibiiig its juices knewnothing of the little orphaned twig above that waited for its food but they could not cheat it of its law Up to a certain point of a certain bough the rising fluids came tinder the law of the mountainash and there they found a gateway guarded by an angel that gave a newcommandment Thus far mountain ash beyond Seckel pear and if3 in October you will walk in thegarden again with me I will show you among the scarlet berriesbending heavily toward you theclustered succulence of the SeckoL A seedsman may cheat you but a seed never does If you plant corn it never comes up potatoes If you sow wheat it never comes up rye Wrapped up in every capsule bound up in every kernel packed intoevery minutest gerai is this law writ ten by iod at the beginningproduce thou after thy kiud So the whole living world goes on producing after its kind Year after year we visit the seedsman and read thelabels on his drawers and paekages and beir home and plant in our gar dens the little homely germs that keen Gods law so well and summer rewards our trust in them with beau tiful fruition llobina sang the same T TO 1 1V son to tne lligrim rauiem ui they sing to us The May flower breathes the same fragrance now that itbreathed in the fingers of Rose Standishand man and woman producing after their kindarc the same today that they were three thousand years ago I have been thinking how in ac cordance with this law of which we are talking our moods our passions our sympathies our moral frames and conditions reproduce themselves after their kiud in the miuxk and lives around us I call my child to my knee in anger I strike him a hasty blow that carries with it the peculiar sting of anger I speak a loud reproof that bears with it the spirit of anger and I look in vain for any relenting in his flashing eyes flushed face and compressed lips I have made my child angry and my uncontrolled passiou hasproduced after its kind I have sown anger and I have reaped angerinstantaneously Perhaps 1 become still more angry in consequence of the passion manifested by my child and I speak ami strike again He is weak and I am strong but though he bow his head crushed into sienee I m iv be sure th t there is n heart in ib little bosom and anger the more bitter because it isimpotent I put the child away from me and think of what I have done I am full of relentings I long to ask his pardon for I know that I have offended and deeply injured one of Christs little ones 1 call him to me again press his head to my breast kiss him and weep No word is spoken but the little bosom heaves the little heart soft ns the little eyes grow tenderly penitent the little hands come up aud clasp my neck and my relettings and my sorrow have produced after their kind The child i conquered so in itl utter iretluJ words they come back to me like echoes If I bristle all over with irritability the quills will begin to rise all about me One thoroughly irritable per son in a breakfast room spoils coffee and toast sours milk and destroys appetite tor a whole family He produces after his kind Generally a man has around him those who are like him The soil of a social eircla is usually open and whatever falls intoit produces after its kind whether it be good nature or ill nature purity or impurity faith or skepticism love or hate It would appear therefore that there is ao way by which we can surround ourselves by good society so readily as by being goodourselves If we plant good seed we may calculate with a great degree of certainty upon securing good fruit It 1 plant frankness and open heart edness I expect to reap them and I have no right fc expect to reap them unlesss I plant thenf If I go to a man with my heart in my hand I have good reason for expecting to meet a man with his heart in his hand Frankness begets frankness just as naturally and just as certain ly under the proper conditions s like produces like in the animal and vegetable kingdoms There are men who do everything by indirection who meet one as warily as if words were trap3 and pitfalls who manage a friendly interview as a general would manage a campaign and if they make their demonstration first weare placed upon our guard e unconsciously become wary anddistrustful Tney plant distrust ami secretivencss and they produce iu us after their kind No man can be treated frankly in this world unless he himself be frank If we would win confidence in ourselves we must put confidence in others The soul is like a mirror reflecting that which stands before it If we wouldreform society or make it better in any respect our quickest way to do it is to reform aud make ourselves better If I would reap courtesy and hospitality and kindness and love I must plant them and it is the sum of all arrogance to assume that I have a right to reap them without planting them A man who receives courtesy without exercising it reaps that which he has not sown He is a thief and ought in justice to be kicked out of society Blessings oa the man who sows the seeds of a happy nature and a noble character broadcast wherever his feet wander who has a smile alike for joy and sorrow a tender word always for a child a compassionate utterance for suffering courtesy for friends and tor strangers encouxageaient for the despairing ia open heait for all love for alt good words for all Such seed produces after its kind in all sous when it fiuds lodgment and that which the sower fails to reap passes into hands that are gratelul for the largess Lessons viLife Wonders of the Atruosphere The atmosphere rises above us with its cathedral dome archingtoward heaven of which it is the most perfect synonym and symbol I floats around us like that grand ob ject which the apostle John saw in his vision a sea of glass like unto crystal bo missive is it taat when it begins to stir it tosses about great ships like playthings and sweeps city and forest like snow flakes to destruction before it And yet it is so noble that we have lived years in it before we can be persuaded that it exists at all aud the great bulk of mankind never realize the truth that they are bathed in an ocean of air Its weight is so enormous that iron shivers before it like glass yet a soap ball sails through it with impunity and the tiniest insect waves it aside with its wing It ministers lavishly to all our senses We touch it not but it touches us Its warm south wind brings back the colur to the pale face of the invalid its cool west wiuds refresh the fevered brow aud make the blood mantle to our cheeks aud even its north lasts brace into new vigor the hardened children of our rugged climate The eye is indebted to it for all the magnificence of sunrise the full brightness of midday the chas tened radiance of the morning and the clouds that cradle near thesetting sun But for it the rainbow would want its triumphal arch i nd the winds would not send the fleecy messengers on errands around the heavens the cold ether would not shed snow feathers on the earth nor would drops of dew gather on the beautiful flowers The kindly rain would never fall nor hailstorm nor fog diversify the face of the sky our naked globe would turn itstanned and unshadowed forehead to the un and one dreary monotonous blaze of light and heat dazzle and burn up all things Were there no atmosphere the evening sun would in a moment set and without warning plunge the earth into darkness But the air keeps in her hand a shield of her rays and lets them slip but slowly through her fingers so that the shadows of evening aregathered by degrees and the flowers have time to bow their heads and each creature space to find a place of rest and to nestle to repose In the morning the gairish sun would at one bound burst from the bosom of night and blaze above the horizon but air watches for his coming and sends first but one little ray to announce his approach and then another and then a handful and so gently draws aside the curtain of night andslowly lets the light fall on the face of the sleeping earth till her eyelids open and like man she goes forth again to labor till evening Shooting Negro Teamsters It is reported from the battlefield near Murfrecsboro that allcontrabands captured by rebels on Union wagon trains are immediately shot Twenty thus killed are lying on the Murfrecsboro pike The rebels aud their friends here aud abroad have pretended great fears of a negroinsurrection They opposed every interference with slavery on our part because it might lead to uegro revolts Do those slaveholding assassins not fear the vengeance they are exciting in the breasts of the negroes by suchcoldblooded massacres as are recorded above Does it not occur to these murderers that for every negro wagondriver thoy shoot they plant a spirit ot deadly hate and revenge in the breast of a hundred black men Are the slaveholders mad that by such savage acts they draw draw down upon themselves at once the horror ot aJL civilized men and tne terriDio vengeance ot a race which they have djne their best to brutalize Davis and his fellow slavedrivers have long been itching to commence a war of extermination they have never restrained their soldiers from any cruelties or indecencies in which they chose to indulge Let them beware By the Proclamation of the President black men are to be enlisted in the army and navy Prudence demands that the rebels shall treat these blacks wherever we employ them as soldiersaccording to military rules If the blacks are murdered they will know how to retaliate nor will thegovernment fail to take their part anddemand for them treatment due to combatants If the government should hesitate to enforce this the blacks would only be tempted to take the law into their own hands and to answer murder with murder Let the rebels beware They are foolishly preparing wrath against the day of wrath Post Ladies Jn the rural dlstriMs of the South tobacco isused by the names oi ootli sexesindiscriminately An army letterwriter in the Dubuque Times says A foraging party near Ifartsville roppn t l v rvi 1 1 ed at a house wlerc they found a woman auu thirteen children the three eldest beino invU nnrl nil ni them chawing a powoVpftobacco One of the nartv wmavlincr that she was the flrf tcioi i or saw chew tobacco tho old woman exclaimed Wal now whar was you brought up Never seen a wo man cucw oaccar Kockou yo haint been round much llnnt n lv any ladies whar you was raised Statistics of the Proclamation The Census Report of 1860 gives us the exact proportions of the slaves who are freed by thePresidents proclamation or permitted to remain in bondage in loyal states and parts of states Below we throw together some of these statistics which arc interesting in view of the new order of things It will be seen that the fortyeight counties which constitute the new state of West Virginia contained in 1860 less than thirteen thousand slaves while the addition of seven other Virginia counties to this number increases tho figure only to thirty nine tuousand i early half amillion slaves in the rebellious parts of Virginia are freed by the act of the President In Louisiana buteightyfive thousand slaves remain in bond age in thirteen parishes including tne city otJNew Orleans out of a total of 331000 in the census of 1860 In that state therefore nearly a quarter of a million slaves become free immediately The subjoined tables however tell their ovn story 1 SLATES ABSOLUTELY FREED IK EIGHT K FBEL STATES Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Mississippi 435080 11 115 01745 432193 436631 N Carolina 331059 S Carolina 402406 Texas 182506 Total 2422S00 II SLAVES FREED IN PARTS OF STATES IV REBELLION Louisiana Thiriyfivg parislws 245940 Arirginia Ninetyture counties 451533 Total 697473 11 1 SLAVES IN PARTS OF STATESEXCEPTED BY THE PROCLAMATION Louisiana Thinccn parisbesincluding New Orleans 85786 Virginia Fiftyfive counties 39332 Total 125118 IV SLAVES IN BORDER STATES WHOLLY EXCEPTED Deleware 1798 Kentucky 225483 Maryland 87189 Missouri 1T40S33 Tennessee 275749 Total RECAPITULATION 1 Slaves aiigilutvly Creed in eight riibel states 2 Slaves absolutely fred iu parts of two states Totaldeclarer free 3 Slaves exci ptcd by the Pro clamation in parla of Louisiana and Virginia 4 Slaves excepted in the five border slates Total number of slaves not freed bv the Proclamation 5 Whole number of slaves in the United Slates by census of I860 6 Whole number romaiuing laves Jan 1 1SG3 705120 2422800 697473 3120273 125118 705120 830238 3953587 830288 Number freed 3123349 Threequarters of a million of slaves whom the five border states are apparently still permitted to hold are really less than over that number Very many of the negroes have escaped from their masters during the war finding a saferefuge in the bordering free states whence no fugitive slave lawreclaims them The proportion of slaves now ex isting in the Gulf states is also probably greater than the census returns indicate as many masters have sold their slaves to the far South since the beginning of the war in the vain hope of preserving that uncertain kind of property Nevertheless the census report is the best guide we possess iu making these estimates and the net result is undoubtedly eurrect In round numbers but Eight HundredThousand slaves remain in the United States This is much better than Four Millions N Y Post A Natural Conclusion It is not to be wondered at that the ideas of children become confused inregard to theological matters when their elders arc seldom perfectly clear in regard to any matters cf faith and doctr inc Little I reddy G was brought up by a pious mother who taught him to say his prayers before going to bed Freddys mind had been much exercised in ward to spiritual things especially iu regard to angels whom imagination pictured as Coleridge wice said as a kind ol celestial poul y One night Freddy retierd later f ian usual and omitted to repeat his prayer Are you not going to pray to God tonight said his mother No mamma Its no use He has goue to his nest before this time jixPLAiNfco a iiFurKaiu hearingmuch that the earth wa round said that an counted fox hi rolling over bo often j The Old Bears AdVicc That was sensible advice which vns given to the young bear puzzled to know how to walk Shall I said he move my right front paw list or my left or tiie two front paws first or the two hind ones or II four at once and how The old she bear came to his relief with the advice Leave off thinkin and walk It is not uncommon for men to place themselves in the frredicament of the young bear to involvethemelves in needless complexities by trumping up imaginary difficulties or by timorously looking forward to the future As a general thing one who is over anxious about future and doubtful duties may be sure i bat he is shirking present and plain duties It seldom happens that the duty of the present moment can not be discerned f that is done itbecomes a torch throwing light on the duty noxt at hand In every department of life the habit of borrowing trouble is found crippling action and sound thought In religious experience it is often a hinderance Its victim whileneglecting palpable duties bemoans his present condition and laments that he has not the emotions which he would like to have and torments himself with doubts and fears A more devout faith would lead him to walk ceehrfully and step by stephis appointed path and to believe that the merciful Power which hadupheld him hitherto would shield him to the end iV Y Exavuner Pontoon Trains A Tribune correspodent claims that General Meigs knew of thedestruction of the bridges atFredericksburg before Burnside moved hisforces to the new line by means of areport of General Sigcl drawn from the reconnoissance of CaptDhalgren lie says further spoaking of thepontoon discussion As to the matter of movingpontoon trains it may be stated that the heavy pontoon train of Gen Fremont army during the chase after Jackson over themountainswis always up with the aimyand inposition for the troops to cross with out causing any delay whatever The train was then under the charge ot Lieutenant George T llobinson now Captain Hobinson and aiddeeampta GeneralSigel Thepontoon tram above referred to was a scries of wooden boats shaped like scows easily puttogether and tuken apatt and built after the pattern of those aheadv iu use in Gen McClcllaus army This particular train however wasordered by General Fremont at his own expense without authority from the War Peparimeut By the letters publishod iu the McDowell Court of Inquiry it appears that ho did not believe it possible for Fremont to catch Jackson pot knowing most likely that the MountainDepartment possessed such an institution as a pontoon train In thatremarkable pursuit of the Mountain Fox Fre mont kept the pQiitoon boatsconstantly in the front They were put into the water a few hws afterAshby had burned the bridge over the Shenandoah but the force of afreshet bearing on its surface logshouses trees c carried it away It was instantly put together iu the face of almost insurmountable difficulties and the army safely crossed al though they waded for two miles through the water which ovei flawed the bottom lands All of our armies in the field should be possessed of vioiitoon trains and should not be obliged to trust to the department at Washington at a criticalmomeiit Post TllL Text A clergyman being much pressed by a kdy of hisacquaintance to preach a sermon the first Sunday after her marriage complied and chose the following passage in the Psalms for his text Aud there shall be abundance of peace while the moon endureth Well Put Sidney Smith once defined English benevolence to be a strong impulse on the part of A when hp sees B in distress tocompel C to help him One isreminded of it in reading of the cottondistress in Lancashire I us lives I slum nt care so nifl 1 thin iiiiIm about tlit bu looi to his land aTlv tut lie laU U maam I haint got tli blood Wepaii

County News VOL 3 No 153 OBIiRIJN AND ELLINGTON WEDNESDAY JANUARY U 1863 100 PER ANN IM THE LQ3AIS COUNTY SEWS PUBLISHED AT OBKUMN OHIO BV V A SHAK JXIAND CO 8100 Per Vear in Advance BUSINESS DIRECTORY v a saaiK ian a ce Book an i Juij Pniitt rsaml Publishers Newsm BuifUiiig UtiLTiin Fur lortua c seeuilvurticmti toti toiinb puju ito ot notsfc Corner of Mniii bmJ Coll Siiiet Obiii Im LW i uii i iwrKioi liriiig by tUodav or week COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE fiiir1 Floor Ac w Ruiiiliijr Oberliu 0 See Hijs inn uiii Surj n hasi Culture Street iOflERTS BAILEY AiioriKT niiii otihsi llors l Law Office mvr Koveys l ro Obcrnti O II r KOUBI Ti O Kuky Jr Uaitkctt tiro tier ami Puusion Ageiit loCollt gi Plata Oburtui B PfiENTISS of the ltiie Kclt Pay Uiunly Pension Collecting andInsurnc lgoiti in J ilor ouUi ui riovc huitv viticriio O I MJOHNSON CO Dyitlors m ir iiouda li rutencsj Harttvrure CmKerinauiiiHc No 1 Me re limitsfcxctiiiiie vtiin utierhii uiuu ec Adv KINNEV KEAWIER Lotilurs in Dry GooW Groceries Crockery lurii ware ole Uuer iii Olio fcjeu Adv Ueakr u Koaiiy made CI Miing Foreign ami lfmiesiit ir Giini Cloth CailiUtreWlliliijiy Uoaa Kuiis utikee Aoiius 6c c AtO AivcrtiSeiiieiU itutloi in lif ks Suiianery Pioiures Picture Fitiio W il P ipor tVc Comer Main andGuile ireeU ci lin J M fl lCH ntkallr ami riiuiiuier unil Dealer iu iirv PitiuK Viuiiu ldo djreal variety omih miiuble Lt lu trade OOrtrliu Ouio Pi Ptitogra liist tliiid Slorycoru r of Main aud CoHigT M o be rut V i K L HENRY Dealer iu Drugs Aledicnea itc OberliuO AdvorlisentuuL HA dUNC Daiei in Drills Modiciue fcic OberUn 0 Siie AJ vwrtiir uieul jrrSiODALL Uantist Union Block Oberlin Ohio f nAN HENOrtY iijni jtr in Clocks WaCcies Jewelry Musical i isinjueuu silv iWaroSyectaeieKancjOioticaJ fuiicy ClitUa vVure rtio J Uiiio Uloefc Ofierfrti O aitverLieiueul J VW LINOcH Dealeriu Clocks VVaieties Jewelry Silver Wttfe wcUci aiid tuuey Gouas uoerlln WNl HOVEY Dealer in Gxoecn Flour Provisions Hard ware ilte Commercial iiloct Ouerliu J 0tAlUliM i Grocer Cooluiliniier laler in Provision Flour betUOieeic io 1 Jiuni Block Oorliu JOHN 8KICE Coinmisinn Merchant Tailor find Prctical Culler Wuh luauo CiuUiiiig always on nana WEED BECKWITH StvosTin Shee Iron and Hardware Maiu Street Ubemu Vtli AtOCii ManufaciucersvV Ujalors in LaJiesuid Gonts KMLjud nuocd A 1 Union bioik Ubjrlin WiVi dAUEY tlealor iii Baiitd allocs and iviibbura Custom VVoi k uxfic io iiriier nu Uui bt Oborlin O H WALL Dealer in Hoots and Hliocs ieeiat atteulion lo ciiaoni vwik 14 Collude flace Obrliu P K TOBIN Sadtia and Ujirneas Maker and Dealer in Iranrf3 Vaiiaea Carpel ila VVUip fee Souiii dam Mrel uuoriin mgu ol ine ui upfo Sce adverii4imejii J AH lliiMi j Harnesses Saddles Trunk Carp 1 Bags Rub ber Llwtuingiiiiiio iooeoicMiin 61 uburtiu J I AiUatflltiiic Meit Market brdli mid Sail Moais Fish tc Cash tor HiUo and Pul Uiu Mreet Ouerlm WM KNORH Mtul Market Prosit and halt Ueof and Pork die uarpf ntjr iiiocK Oberlin ISAAC PcNiIEcO Wytn4 M idj and KepAired andBiaekinithog to order cor d no iud Waior sts ObTiin HVCi A WllflBMCV Livery fe Oiihujus Keep rs Have c uist iitly on iimd tfood H raja and Carnages All orders lull wiln Uleiu will te pronptl allundd t Uifico u or norm ot ine iNtvOiHceu0wr liuoiiio C H Favh L A Whitskv Livrr find Boarding Stable AXol Horse and cr ia to lei Kat CidUise Si Ooeilm s jod r a MaW and dealer in Furniture otc South VI am treet JOorhn H EVANS BROTHER Cncral Umltrtakers and Cabinet Alakersaiid Dealers in Furiituro Uberlui WATEttMAN PEEK Mantitaetief uf Urs Saaii iiliuJa anJ 8crol vVoric mil uhlT O irhn S B tLli PlantiiqrHhd Stiinlu Mill Sawing doneloorUei Soaia vUiiim obrln J H DICKSOM Allorne and CouaaulUir al Iaw Ofllc in tb PSl Otll e Wilhnisiun O BLISS ANOJJHNSrON Attirn jvj uil ouaiullord Ht Law and S tllci tnr in lilt uiury Will lUnud pruMiplly lo all luinvrio eniril t I In llieir cure olltcc JHo 8 UWilli tiuick ELVRii Ohio A A dim O W Johnston Squandered Lives TIip Ssliermaii wades in the surges I he sailor sails over the Sta The soIiIut s es hravely tu buttle TIib woodniun lays SXij lo ills tree They are ench of the hreed of the heroeii The niinhomi alteiripered in strife Strung hamla Ihut go liylitly to Iabir r4 True hearts thai tjvko comfort iu life In each is the seed lo replenish The world vith the vitror it need he cetitre m honest nrTiCtions The impulse to geBeroua dtvds But the sharks drink the blood of the fisher The sailor is dropped in the sea The soloier lies colti ly hii camion Tha woodman is crashed by his Iree Ench prodigal life that is wasted in numy acaieveiuent unseen Bui lciijjlljeija khe day of ihe uoward And strengthens the crufiy and mean The blood of the noblest is lavished That Ihe selfih a profit may find flui God sees the lives that are squandered And we lo his wisdom arv blind Bayard Taylor Like Begets Like A plant or a tree never forgets itself Cheat it of its root and the steuiremains faithful The minutest twig put out to nurse upon the arm of a foreign mother feels the thrill of the great primal law in its filmiest fiber and braaihas in everyexpression of life its fidelity If you will walk with me in o the garderiIwill show you a mountainash in lull bloom but on the top of it you will see a strange little cluster of pear blossoms A twig from a Seckel peartree was two or three years ago engrafted there It had a hard time in uniting its being to that of the alien ash but it loved lite and so at length it coasented to join itself to the transplanted forest tree It was weak and alone but it kept its law Spring bathed the ash with its own peculiar bloom and autumn hung it with its clusters of scarlet berries and it was hidden from sight by the redundant foliage but it kgpt its law The roots of themountainash blindly reaching in the ground afid imbibiiig its juices knewnothing of the little orphaned twig above that waited for its food but they could not cheat it of its law Up to a certain point of a certain bough the rising fluids came tinder the law of the mountainash and there they found a gateway guarded by an angel that gave a newcommandment Thus far mountain ash beyond Seckel pear and if3 in October you will walk in thegarden again with me I will show you among the scarlet berriesbending heavily toward you theclustered succulence of the SeckoL A seedsman may cheat you but a seed never does If you plant corn it never comes up potatoes If you sow wheat it never comes up rye Wrapped up in every capsule bound up in every kernel packed intoevery minutest gerai is this law writ ten by iod at the beginningproduce thou after thy kiud So the whole living world goes on producing after its kind Year after year we visit the seedsman and read thelabels on his drawers and paekages and beir home and plant in our gar dens the little homely germs that keen Gods law so well and summer rewards our trust in them with beau tiful fruition llobina sang the same T TO 1 1V son to tne lligrim rauiem ui they sing to us The May flower breathes the same fragrance now that itbreathed in the fingers of Rose Standishand man and woman producing after their kindarc the same today that they were three thousand years ago I have been thinking how in ac cordance with this law of which we are talking our moods our passions our sympathies our moral frames and conditions reproduce themselves after their kiud in the miuxk and lives around us I call my child to my knee in anger I strike him a hasty blow that carries with it the peculiar sting of anger I speak a loud reproof that bears with it the spirit of anger and I look in vain for any relenting in his flashing eyes flushed face and compressed lips I have made my child angry and my uncontrolled passiou hasproduced after its kind I have sown anger and I have reaped angerinstantaneously Perhaps 1 become still more angry in consequence of the passion manifested by my child and I speak ami strike again He is weak and I am strong but though he bow his head crushed into sienee I m iv be sure th t there is n heart in ib little bosom and anger the more bitter because it isimpotent I put the child away from me and think of what I have done I am full of relentings I long to ask his pardon for I know that I have offended and deeply injured one of Christs little ones 1 call him to me again press his head to my breast kiss him and weep No word is spoken but the little bosom heaves the little heart soft ns the little eyes grow tenderly penitent the little hands come up aud clasp my neck and my relettings and my sorrow have produced after their kind The child i conquered so in itl utter iretluJ words they come back to me like echoes If I bristle all over with irritability the quills will begin to rise all about me One thoroughly irritable per son in a breakfast room spoils coffee and toast sours milk and destroys appetite tor a whole family He produces after his kind Generally a man has around him those who are like him The soil of a social eircla is usually open and whatever falls intoit produces after its kind whether it be good nature or ill nature purity or impurity faith or skepticism love or hate It would appear therefore that there is ao way by which we can surround ourselves by good society so readily as by being goodourselves If we plant good seed we may calculate with a great degree of certainty upon securing good fruit It 1 plant frankness and open heart edness I expect to reap them and I have no right fc expect to reap them unlesss I plant thenf If I go to a man with my heart in my hand I have good reason for expecting to meet a man with his heart in his hand Frankness begets frankness just as naturally and just as certain ly under the proper conditions s like produces like in the animal and vegetable kingdoms There are men who do everything by indirection who meet one as warily as if words were trap3 and pitfalls who manage a friendly interview as a general would manage a campaign and if they make their demonstration first weare placed upon our guard e unconsciously become wary anddistrustful Tney plant distrust ami secretivencss and they produce iu us after their kind No man can be treated frankly in this world unless he himself be frank If we would win confidence in ourselves we must put confidence in others The soul is like a mirror reflecting that which stands before it If we wouldreform society or make it better in any respect our quickest way to do it is to reform aud make ourselves better If I would reap courtesy and hospitality and kindness and love I must plant them and it is the sum of all arrogance to assume that I have a right to reap them without planting them A man who receives courtesy without exercising it reaps that which he has not sown He is a thief and ought in justice to be kicked out of society Blessings oa the man who sows the seeds of a happy nature and a noble character broadcast wherever his feet wander who has a smile alike for joy and sorrow a tender word always for a child a compassionate utterance for suffering courtesy for friends and tor strangers encouxageaient for the despairing ia open heait for all love for alt good words for all Such seed produces after its kind in all sous when it fiuds lodgment and that which the sower fails to reap passes into hands that are gratelul for the largess Lessons viLife Wonders of the Atruosphere The atmosphere rises above us with its cathedral dome archingtoward heaven of which it is the most perfect synonym and symbol I floats around us like that grand ob ject which the apostle John saw in his vision a sea of glass like unto crystal bo missive is it taat when it begins to stir it tosses about great ships like playthings and sweeps city and forest like snow flakes to destruction before it And yet it is so noble that we have lived years in it before we can be persuaded that it exists at all aud the great bulk of mankind never realize the truth that they are bathed in an ocean of air Its weight is so enormous that iron shivers before it like glass yet a soap ball sails through it with impunity and the tiniest insect waves it aside with its wing It ministers lavishly to all our senses We touch it not but it touches us Its warm south wind brings back the colur to the pale face of the invalid its cool west wiuds refresh the fevered brow aud make the blood mantle to our cheeks aud even its north lasts brace into new vigor the hardened children of our rugged climate The eye is indebted to it for all the magnificence of sunrise the full brightness of midday the chas tened radiance of the morning and the clouds that cradle near thesetting sun But for it the rainbow would want its triumphal arch i nd the winds would not send the fleecy messengers on errands around the heavens the cold ether would not shed snow feathers on the earth nor would drops of dew gather on the beautiful flowers The kindly rain would never fall nor hailstorm nor fog diversify the face of the sky our naked globe would turn itstanned and unshadowed forehead to the un and one dreary monotonous blaze of light and heat dazzle and burn up all things Were there no atmosphere the evening sun would in a moment set and without warning plunge the earth into darkness But the air keeps in her hand a shield of her rays and lets them slip but slowly through her fingers so that the shadows of evening aregathered by degrees and the flowers have time to bow their heads and each creature space to find a place of rest and to nestle to repose In the morning the gairish sun would at one bound burst from the bosom of night and blaze above the horizon but air watches for his coming and sends first but one little ray to announce his approach and then another and then a handful and so gently draws aside the curtain of night andslowly lets the light fall on the face of the sleeping earth till her eyelids open and like man she goes forth again to labor till evening Shooting Negro Teamsters It is reported from the battlefield near Murfrecsboro that allcontrabands captured by rebels on Union wagon trains are immediately shot Twenty thus killed are lying on the Murfrecsboro pike The rebels aud their friends here aud abroad have pretended great fears of a negroinsurrection They opposed every interference with slavery on our part because it might lead to uegro revolts Do those slaveholding assassins not fear the vengeance they are exciting in the breasts of the negroes by suchcoldblooded massacres as are recorded above Does it not occur to these murderers that for every negro wagondriver thoy shoot they plant a spirit ot deadly hate and revenge in the breast of a hundred black men Are the slaveholders mad that by such savage acts they draw draw down upon themselves at once the horror ot aJL civilized men and tne terriDio vengeance ot a race which they have djne their best to brutalize Davis and his fellow slavedrivers have long been itching to commence a war of extermination they have never restrained their soldiers from any cruelties or indecencies in which they chose to indulge Let them beware By the Proclamation of the President black men are to be enlisted in the army and navy Prudence demands that the rebels shall treat these blacks wherever we employ them as soldiersaccording to military rules If the blacks are murdered they will know how to retaliate nor will thegovernment fail to take their part anddemand for them treatment due to combatants If the government should hesitate to enforce this the blacks would only be tempted to take the law into their own hands and to answer murder with murder Let the rebels beware They are foolishly preparing wrath against the day of wrath Post Ladies Jn the rural dlstriMs of the South tobacco isused by the names oi ootli sexesindiscriminately An army letterwriter in the Dubuque Times says A foraging party near Ifartsville roppn t l v rvi 1 1 ed at a house wlerc they found a woman auu thirteen children the three eldest beino invU nnrl nil ni them chawing a powoVpftobacco One of the nartv wmavlincr that she was the flrf tcioi i or saw chew tobacco tho old woman exclaimed Wal now whar was you brought up Never seen a wo man cucw oaccar Kockou yo haint been round much llnnt n lv any ladies whar you was raised Statistics of the Proclamation The Census Report of 1860 gives us the exact proportions of the slaves who are freed by thePresidents proclamation or permitted to remain in bondage in loyal states and parts of states Below we throw together some of these statistics which arc interesting in view of the new order of things It will be seen that the fortyeight counties which constitute the new state of West Virginia contained in 1860 less than thirteen thousand slaves while the addition of seven other Virginia counties to this number increases tho figure only to thirty nine tuousand i early half amillion slaves in the rebellious parts of Virginia are freed by the act of the President In Louisiana buteightyfive thousand slaves remain in bond age in thirteen parishes including tne city otJNew Orleans out of a total of 331000 in the census of 1860 In that state therefore nearly a quarter of a million slaves become free immediately The subjoined tables however tell their ovn story 1 SLATES ABSOLUTELY FREED IK EIGHT K FBEL STATES Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Mississippi 435080 11 115 01745 432193 436631 N Carolina 331059 S Carolina 402406 Texas 182506 Total 2422S00 II SLAVES FREED IN PARTS OF STATES IV REBELLION Louisiana Thiriyfivg parislws 245940 Arirginia Ninetyture counties 451533 Total 697473 11 1 SLAVES IN PARTS OF STATESEXCEPTED BY THE PROCLAMATION Louisiana Thinccn parisbesincluding New Orleans 85786 Virginia Fiftyfive counties 39332 Total 125118 IV SLAVES IN BORDER STATES WHOLLY EXCEPTED Deleware 1798 Kentucky 225483 Maryland 87189 Missouri 1T40S33 Tennessee 275749 Total RECAPITULATION 1 Slaves aiigilutvly Creed in eight riibel states 2 Slaves absolutely fred iu parts of two states Totaldeclarer free 3 Slaves exci ptcd by the Pro clamation in parla of Louisiana and Virginia 4 Slaves excepted in the five border slates Total number of slaves not freed bv the Proclamation 5 Whole number of slaves in the United Slates by census of I860 6 Whole number romaiuing laves Jan 1 1SG3 705120 2422800 697473 3120273 125118 705120 830238 3953587 830288 Number freed 3123349 Threequarters of a million of slaves whom the five border states are apparently still permitted to hold are really less than over that number Very many of the negroes have escaped from their masters during the war finding a saferefuge in the bordering free states whence no fugitive slave lawreclaims them The proportion of slaves now ex isting in the Gulf states is also probably greater than the census returns indicate as many masters have sold their slaves to the far South since the beginning of the war in the vain hope of preserving that uncertain kind of property Nevertheless the census report is the best guide we possess iu making these estimates and the net result is undoubtedly eurrect In round numbers but Eight HundredThousand slaves remain in the United States This is much better than Four Millions N Y Post A Natural Conclusion It is not to be wondered at that the ideas of children become confused inregard to theological matters when their elders arc seldom perfectly clear in regard to any matters cf faith and doctr inc Little I reddy G was brought up by a pious mother who taught him to say his prayers before going to bed Freddys mind had been much exercised in ward to spiritual things especially iu regard to angels whom imagination pictured as Coleridge wice said as a kind ol celestial poul y One night Freddy retierd later f ian usual and omitted to repeat his prayer Are you not going to pray to God tonight said his mother No mamma Its no use He has goue to his nest before this time jixPLAiNfco a iiFurKaiu hearingmuch that the earth wa round said that an counted fox hi rolling over bo often j The Old Bears AdVicc That was sensible advice which vns given to the young bear puzzled to know how to walk Shall I said he move my right front paw list or my left or tiie two front paws first or the two hind ones or II four at once and how The old she bear came to his relief with the advice Leave off thinkin and walk It is not uncommon for men to place themselves in the frredicament of the young bear to involvethemelves in needless complexities by trumping up imaginary difficulties or by timorously looking forward to the future As a general thing one who is over anxious about future and doubtful duties may be sure i bat he is shirking present and plain duties It seldom happens that the duty of the present moment can not be discerned f that is done itbecomes a torch throwing light on the duty noxt at hand In every department of life the habit of borrowing trouble is found crippling action and sound thought In religious experience it is often a hinderance Its victim whileneglecting palpable duties bemoans his present condition and laments that he has not the emotions which he would like to have and torments himself with doubts and fears A more devout faith would lead him to walk ceehrfully and step by stephis appointed path and to believe that the merciful Power which hadupheld him hitherto would shield him to the end iV Y Exavuner Pontoon Trains A Tribune correspodent claims that General Meigs knew of thedestruction of the bridges atFredericksburg before Burnside moved hisforces to the new line by means of areport of General Sigcl drawn from the reconnoissance of CaptDhalgren lie says further spoaking of thepontoon discussion As to the matter of movingpontoon trains it may be stated that the heavy pontoon train of Gen Fremont army during the chase after Jackson over themountainswis always up with the aimyand inposition for the troops to cross with out causing any delay whatever The train was then under the charge ot Lieutenant George T llobinson now Captain Hobinson and aiddeeampta GeneralSigel Thepontoon tram above referred to was a scries of wooden boats shaped like scows easily puttogether and tuken apatt and built after the pattern of those aheadv iu use in Gen McClcllaus army This particular train however wasordered by General Fremont at his own expense without authority from the War Peparimeut By the letters publishod iu the McDowell Court of Inquiry it appears that ho did not believe it possible for Fremont to catch Jackson pot knowing most likely that the MountainDepartment possessed such an institution as a pontoon train In thatremarkable pursuit of the Mountain Fox Fre mont kept the pQiitoon boatsconstantly in the front They were put into the water a few hws afterAshby had burned the bridge over the Shenandoah but the force of afreshet bearing on its surface logshouses trees c carried it away It was instantly put together iu the face of almost insurmountable difficulties and the army safely crossed al though they waded for two miles through the water which ovei flawed the bottom lands All of our armies in the field should be possessed of vioiitoon trains and should not be obliged to trust to the department at Washington at a criticalmomeiit Post TllL Text A clergyman being much pressed by a kdy of hisacquaintance to preach a sermon the first Sunday after her marriage complied and chose the following passage in the Psalms for his text Aud there shall be abundance of peace while the moon endureth Well Put Sidney Smith once defined English benevolence to be a strong impulse on the part of A when hp sees B in distress tocompel C to help him One isreminded of it in reading of the cottondistress in Lancashire I us lives I slum nt care so nifl 1 thin iiiiIm about tlit bu looi to his land aTlv tut lie laU U maam I haint got tli blood Wepaii